MONTREAL — Pierre Karl Péladeau missed the opening of the Quebec National Assembly on Tuesday due to a biking accident he suffered on the weekend.

The elected MNA for St-Jérôme is currently in the Centre hospitalier universitaire de Sherbrooke with multiple fractures. Péladeau had his bike mishap riding in the Eastern Townships on Sunday.

The first-time MNA joined the Parti Quebecois as a star candidate for the April provincial election after many years at the head of the Quebecor media empire, which includes the Videotron cable and internet company, Le Journal de Montréal and the Sun newspaper and TV outlets in English Canada. He is one of the presumptive front-runners to replace outgoing PQ leader Pauline Marois.

Interim PQ Leader Stephane Bedard says Péladeau won’t be in the national legislature when it resumes sitting Wednesday.